Hello, from Steve Garten and welcome to my weird and wonderful world of moths.
I’m amateur Lepidopterist, I trap and record moth species on my six acre wildlife meadow at Tibenham Norfolk, UK.
The list of moths listed in this Macro-moths blog and the Micro Moths blog are the species I have recorded since 2015.
Chocolate-tip - Clostera curtula
The moth is from the family of Notodontidae, subfamily Pygaerinae.
The moth is a medium-sized macro species, with a wingspan of 27 to 35 mm.
The English population has two generations, with adults at large in April and May, and again in August and September. In Scotland the species is single-brooded, flying from June to July.
The species habitats are woodland and well-wooded areas including gardens where the foodplant grow.
It overwinters as a pupa, in a cocoon formed between leaves of the food plant, It then falls with the leaves to the ground in Autumn.
The larva appears from May to June and again from August to September in England, and July to August in Scotland.
The larva hide by day between spun leaves, they emerge at night to feed.
The lava feeds mainly on Aspen, poplars, sallows and willows.
This moth is classified as a Local species.
Well distributed in Southeast, southern and central England and East Anglia.